Editors Reads

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Science

66 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Anders Ericsson: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Anders Ericsson — how to approach Peak, his essential book on deliberate practice and expertise. A complete reading guide to the expert performance researcher.

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Where to Start with Annie Murphy Paul: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Annie Murphy Paul — how to approach The Extended Mind, her synthesis of research on cognition beyond the brain. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Bessel van der Kolk: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Bessel van der Kolk — how to approach The Body Keeps the Score, his essential book on trauma. A complete reading guide to the trauma researcher.

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Where to Start with Bill Gates: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Bill Gates — how to approach How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, his essential book on climate solutions. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Brian Christian: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Brian Christian — how to approach Algorithms to Live By, his essential application of computer science to human decision-making. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Brian Greene: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Brian Greene — how to approach The Elegant Universe, his essential guide to string theory and the unified theory of everything. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Carlo Rovelli: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Carlo Rovelli — how to approach The Order of Time, his essential meditation on physics and time. A complete reading guide to the Italian physicist.

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Where to Start with Casey Means: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Casey Means — how to approach Good Energy, her comprehensive framework connecting metabolic health to chronic disease prevention. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Chris van Tulleken: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Chris van Tulleken — how to approach Ultra-Processed People, his investigation into the science of ultra-processed food and its health effects. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Christopher McDougall: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Christopher McDougall — how to approach Born to Run, his essential book about the Tarahumara runners and human endurance. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Daniel Lieberman: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Daniel Lieberman — how to approach The Story of the Human Body, his account of evolutionary mismatch and the root causes of modern chronic disease. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with David A. Sinclair: A Reading Guide

Where to start with David A. Sinclair — how to approach Lifespan, his essential book on the science of aging. A complete reading guide to the Harvard geneticist's work.

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Where to Start with David Epstein: A Reading Guide

Where to start with David Epstein — how to approach Range, his essential book on the case for generalists over specialists. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Donella Meadows: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Donella Meadows — how to approach Thinking in Systems, her essential primer on systems thinking and complexity. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Douglas Hofstadter: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Douglas Hofstadter — how to approach Gödel, Escher, Bach, the Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on consciousness and self-reference. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Elizabeth Kolbert: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Elizabeth Kolbert — how to approach The Sixth Extinction, her Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the ongoing mass extinction event. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Hans Rosling: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Hans Rosling — how to approach Factfulness, his essential book on how to see the world clearly through data. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with J. Kenji López-Alt: A Reading Guide

Where to start with J. Kenji López-Alt — how to approach The Food Lab, his landmark culinary science book that explains the science behind everyday cooking through hundreds of rigorously tested recipes. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with James Gleick: A Reading Guide

Where to start with James Gleick — whether to begin with Chaos or The Information. A complete reading guide to the science journalist and author.

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Where to Start with James Nestor: A Reading Guide

Where to start with James Nestor — how to approach Breath, his essential investigation into the science of how we breathe and why most of us do it wrong. A complete reading guide.

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